Bubble-blowing device.



Patented June 25, l90l.

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IIVVE/VTUR ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES I PATENT M OFFI'QE.

FRANCIS L. COOK, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TOFRANOKE W. DICKINSON, OF SAME PLACE.

BUBBLE-BLOWING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 677,307, dated June 25,1901.

Application filed October 26, 1900. Serial No. 34,406. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS L. COOK, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Springfield,in the county of Hampden andState of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Bubble-Blowing Devices, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

The present invention relates to a device for blowing two or morebubbles at one time; and the object of the invention is to produce adevice for the said purpose which shall be efflcient and successful inuse, very cheap of manufacture, and durable; and the invention consistsin a soap-bubble-blowing device made in accordance with the descriptionhereinafter given and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

The device may be constructed with the capability of blowing anyreasonable number of bubbles exceeding oneth at is to say, I have madethe device capable of blowing two bubbles and also capable of blowingsix and seven.

Bubble-blowers constructed in accordance with my invention areillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure l is acentral sectional view through the device, Fig. 2 being a plan view ofthe under side of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a partial central sectional view anda partial side view of a device similar to the one shown in Fig. 1, buthaving the capacity for blowing six bubbles instead of three, asindicated in said first figure. Fig. dis a sectional view of a devicefor blowing bubbles without providing special water.

In the drawings, A represents the head of the bubble-blower, of ageneral cylindrical from the one next outside thereof by an annularchannel or air-chamber f. ,1

To operate the device, the same is dipped with the depending portions aa &c., downward, preferably into the soapy water or othersuitably-prepared water, a liquid film adhering at the lower edge ofeach depending Wall, and th en by blowing through the tubular stem 1)the air passing into the air-chamberfwithin each wall through theapertures 01 causes the 6 expansion or inflation of each liquid filminto a bubble, one being within and clearly separated from another, asis especially insured by the arrangement of the walls with their loweredges stepped the one lower than the respectively adjacent one.

The blower may be produced, preferably, from wood,the turned head beingformed separately from the stem, which is fitted therein in the mannerof the ordinary stem in apipe, or the device may be produced with thehead and stem integral, of clay or metal, or it may be produced eitherin separately formed and combined parts or integrally from any othersuitable material as may be desired. Within the lower edge of eachdepending wall a o 850., a groove it may be formed for the receptiontherein of an annular section g, of soap or other suitable substance forrendering water viscous and filmy. The device thus provided with therings of soap, &c., as a part thereof enables bubble-blowing to beperformed by dipping the head into merely pure Water.

In Fig. 4 the device is shown provided with annular and circularsections g of soap set in the annular chambers f above the blastholes,whereby by dipping the device in pure water the latter, coming incontact with the said annular soap sections, becomes rendered o suitablefor the production of bubbles at the lower eirc ular edge of eachannular wall upon the blowing through the device of air with suitableforce.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. Asoap-bubble-blowing device consisting of a circular head having anannular dependingwall a and therewithin one or more annular IOOdepending walls separated from the wall next outside thereof by anannular air-channel, a

tubular stem entering through the outer wall a, and each internal wallhaving a radial aperture in line with the opening through the stem.

2. A bubble-blowing device consisting of a circular head having an outerannular depending wall or flange a, and therewithin one or moredepending concentric annular walls as a (L 13513., each separated fromthe wall next outside thereof by an annular air-channel f, each innerannular wall extending downwardly farther than the one next outside andsurrounding same, the tubular stem 1) entering through the said outerwall to the first inclosed annular space f, and each inclosed dependingwall having the radial aperture d in line with the stem, substantiallyas described and shown.

3. The bubble-blowing device consisting of the head having annular walla, and internal annular walls separated by annular downwardly-openair-chambers, a tubular stern entering the outer Wall a, the apertures61 through the internal walls in line with the stem, and annular orcircular sections of soap placed in each chamber f above the line of thestem and of said apertures d. r

Signed by me at Springfield, Massachusetts, in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

FRANCIS L. COOK.

Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLows, C. F. CLARKE.

